Editorial
The 8 best live music bars in Vienna run from a cellar jazz club to rock under the subway arches, the rooms where the music leads and the drink follows. We read each by what plays and what pours, the night to go and the one to order. Vienna keeps a deep music scene beyond the concert halls, much of it in bars that charge little and start late. Check the listing, then pick your night.
Three rooms make jazz the whole point, from a nightly club to the oldest cellar in the city.
The rest run louder and broader, the rock rooms and culture houses that fill the calendar.
For live music in Vienna, start at Porgy and Bess for a serious jazz night, then drop into Jazzland's cellar for the oldest room in the city. B72 and Chelsea run loud under the subway arches, and Reigen pairs blues with a proper meal. Check the listing, pick your night, and let the band lead.
Priya Nair is barsforKings' senior cocktail editor and a former Punch contributor. She reads a bar by its menu first: how the list is built, the house spirits, and the one drink worth ordering.